Civilizations of the Holy Land

ancient Antioch antiquity Arabs army Assyrian Babylonian became Book Bronze Age building built Byblos Byzantine Caesarea Caliph Canaanite castles centre century BC Christian Church civilization conquest crusaders cult culture Damascus David Dead Sea desert destroyed Diaspora divine earliest early East Egypt Egyptian Emperor Empire evidence excavated feet fortress Galilee Gate Gerizim Gezer Greek Hasmonean Hazor Hebrew Hellenistic Hellenization Hence Herod High Priest Holy Land Holy Sepulchre Islam Israel Israelite Jericho Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Judaea Judah Kathleen Kenyon king kingdom later Latin magnificent Megiddo Mesopotamia military monks Mosaic Moses Moslem mosque Mount Old Testament original orthodox palace Palestine patriarchal Persian Philistines Phoenician pilgrimage pilgrims prophets religion religious Roman Rome route royal Samaria says second millennium BC Seleucid Shechem siege Solomon survived synagogue Syria tablets Temple tomb took town tradition tribal Tyre Ugarit Umayyads walls West Yahweh